While America is busy partying, playing sports and moving away from God the enemy has come into the camp. The countries will wake up when it’s to late. How come the political candidates aren’t showing these videos? Because all they care about is themselves and the power they are after. I pray that Christ will come soon because I’m so sick of it all, society cares more about Hollywood and cell phones then what the future is going to present them. Halloween has surpassed Christmas now in sales and violence is everywhere, yes I know it’s the sign of the times and your representatives aren’t doing anything about it and they won’t. Say goodbye to your freedom soon and. Be prepared to see a lot of blood being shed because we don’t assimilate either to their deitys and the wickedness they want us to bow down to. A lot of blood and wars have been fought for the cross and more are to come. As the church stays asleep and without a march of their own in the streets these rats keep producing and taking orders from the pit. Wake up America were in judgement.
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The world was going to end when women got the vote, and when the internal combustion engine was invented, and when people started to smoke tobacco, and when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door. Probably was going to end when cavemen swung down out of the trees. I think I'll file this message under "more shit that didn't happen".
@Piling On
As someone who works retail, I can tell you with some certainty you're wrong.
Christmas is a 3-month long inescapable barrage of sales pitches, at least in Australia. The Halloween stuff is generally being crowded off the shelves by the Christmas stuff before Halloween's even over!
OH NOES! PEOPLE ARE HAVING FUN! HEAD FOR THE HILLS!
Frankly, Christianity is a lot more interesting when you put an evergreen tree in your living room, cover it in shiny stuff and rip open boxes of gifts while Ralphie's chasing after a Red Ryder BB gun for 24 hours on the boob tube....and a Catholic feast day in honor of the dead and the Saints involves costumes, candy and horror flick tropes.
Of course, that stuff was done by the Pagans, first, the Church just borrowed it and came up with their Christianized versions.
Here in the real world, times are better than they've ever been. Violence, crime and teen pregnancy are all on the decline. Modern medicine accomplishes wonders every day (and needs blood to do so, please become a blood donor). The only major danger is the right's refusal to accept global warming and do something about it.
@ Some Guy Passing Through
Yeah, it's similar here, but not exactly the same. I didn't think any country could commercialize Christmas more than the US, but our other holidays may actually keep it in check somewhat. Our Thanksgiving, in the third week of November, kind of gets lumped in with Christmas but may also limit its expansion to a degree. I also suspect Halloween is bigger here than in Australia. I know that in England, though not the rest of the UK, Halloween is regarded as a somewhat newfangled import that not everybody is on board with.
So how it happens here is: catalogs and stuff start foreshadowing both Christmas and Halloween in late summer or early fall. Halloween dominates October. Christmas stuff becomes ubiquitous, though mixed with Thanksgiving stuff, as soon as Halloween is over, and it goes berserk after Thanksgiving. (The day after Thanksgiving, "Black Friday", has become the traditional date for frenzied pre-Christmas sales. Recently, some stores have begun those sales on Thanksgiving itself. As Jon Stewart said, "Christmas is so big now, it's eating other holidays.")
"America were in judgement"
...but not any more, eh Dawn?
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You've either completely annihilated your own argument, or someone with no proper command of English grammar and spelling has absolutely no right to have whatever they say considered credible in any way, shape or form. Either way, you're completely fucked.
...oh, and selection boxes, wrapping paper, chocolate advent calendars and mince pies - Christmas -related goods - in the UK's supermarkets in mid-September before anything remotely related to Halloween is displayed on their shelves. Your argument is invalid .
If anything, sales of fireworks for Bonfire Night (5th November) far surpass anything relating to Halloween: in all my born days, I've never seen hide nor hair of any 'Trick-or-Treaters' here in the UK, and Bonfire Night celebrates what was done against the anti-Parliamentarian, Guido Fawkes: a Catholic.
Wake up, Dawn. USA =/= the world.
Halloween is getting bigger and bigger each year in Sweden. Perhaps we're stealing it slowly from the US. But, I read this morning that Americans spend about 5 billion on costumes FOR THEIR PETS. I don't think we're quite there yet.
In Sweden, Halloween have more religious references than Christmas does. Christmas is called “Jul” here. Sure, many people have a nativity scene on a table somewhere, among all the Santa Clauses (in Swedish “Jultomtar”), but there are probably more people going to church on All Hallows' Day, than on Christmas day.
To OP: weren't we in the End Times a couple of thousand years ago? They are very long, those Times.
In many ways we used to be more violent, actually. However, in those days we didn't have so many Chri-stain fundamentalists who taught of the virtues of packing semiautomatic rifles to defend against "big government" (read: black people). So I suppose you are an eighth right, but for reasons you do not agree with.
"Halloween has surpassed Christmas now in sales"
Yeah, that's complete bullshit It's mid November in Midwestern Ontario now and there's more Christmas decorations up already then there were for Halloween. We're a mirror of America for things like this as we all grew up with the same movies and tv and such influences. Except for our Thanksgiving which is in early October like a civilized country (Sarc)and not mixed in with Christmas.
playing sports and moving away from God
Is she saying those things go hand in hand? I don't think so, not necessarily, anyway. Watch sports, watch interviews of athletes before or after a game, especially after. Listen to how many times they thank God or something like that.
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